Re: Where do I start?

On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 12:58 PM, Rick Fochtman <[email protected]> wrote:

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> Only if the user does not edit that field.. If the user edits the field
> the MDT is set for you.
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> Right now I am trying to get underlinded fields to work - my first field
> starts underlining but it never stops to the end of the screen
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I have progressed past this and the square bracket issue below (read 'gave
up')
but I am prefilling my fields with '.' (Periods) just to see where they are.

I wanted to delimit my fields with the bracket but the attribute byte got in
the way
so it would have had to be bracket - space - field - space - bracket.. hmm
that might
not be too bad. anyway - later for that.


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> You need to do a START FIELD with appropriate attributes, followed by a
> REPEAT-TO-ADDRESS followed by your underlining character. And make sure
> you follow the command format exactly. RTA, two-byte address, character
> to be repeated.
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> If you're interested, I can share a pair of simple TPUT/TGET subroutines
> that are written in Assembler, designed for call from high-level
> language code.
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> Oh and is '[' Square bracket not a mainframe character?  when I try to
> place one in RPF I get a U with an accent of some sort.
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> Square brackets are not part of the EBCDIC character set; square
> brackets and braces are not part of the 3270 character set.
>

That was my final guess too.


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